The setting
's advertising platform, , delivers ads on the site. Advertisers, agencies and technology partners use it for bidding, targeting, measurement and optimization.
Agency introductions depend on economics that buyers and partners read differently.
Agencies want compensation and durable client relationships, while advertisers want clear costs and control over their media purchases.
Who you’d be doing this for
“My agency sent over a media estimate, and procurement immediately asked which part pays for ads and which part pays the agency.”
Stellan Jensen · Digital Advertising Manager at a goods brand · a character in this brief
An agency has proposed introducing her brand as one of the programme's first advertisers.
What is at stake
Eight agencies want to introduce advertisers, but disagree on who contracts and gets paid. You weigh a channel agencies will promote against economics clients will accept and spending that survives the introductory offer.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- partner incentives vs advertiser cost transparency
- agency client ownership vs direct advertiser relationships
- introductory spending vs repeat demand
- reusable partner terms vs agency-specific expectations
Why Reddit
The Mid-Market book grows through both agency and direct relationships, so a new channel changes who receives commercial credit for the same advertiser.
Written with these in mind
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Where the organization context comes fromThe postings this brief was written from, and the reporting read before it.
The organization context comes from public information. The situation and characters are written for the brief.
Job postings it was written from
Public descriptions of the work at Reddit. They are listed as sources, not as openings. The lines under a posting are its own words, where it meets this brief.
- Senior Account Executive, Mid-Market (DACH) (opens in a new tab)
- Generate advertising revenue from assigned clients via ad agencies and advertisers directly, ensuring their needs are met and exceeded
- Client-facing experience in advertising sales, account management, or paid social campaign management
- Client Account Manager, Mid-Market Sales (Goods) (opens in a new tab)
- Educate brands and media agencies, effectively communicating Reddit’s value proposition and best practices for advertising on the platform
- Proactively manage and deepen relationships with existing advertising partners, both with agencies and directly with clients to drive year-over-year Reddit revenue growth
- Senior Client Partner, Mid-Market Sales (Goods) (opens in a new tab)
- Leverage agency and client direct relationships to identify new buyers of Reddit advertising products
- In addition to laying the foundation of the team, the Senior Client Partner will be responsible for forming relationships with key brands and ensuring they meet their business objectives using Reddit's advertising suite.
This is the setup. The work is inside.
Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.
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